Total exports to Taiwan increased by over nine percent to nearly twenty million dollars for 2004, reversing an eightyear decline. The four million dollar sale of minerals
helped boost exports this year. Forest products to Taiwan climbed almost a million dollars to four million dollars while seafood sales went up over six percent to six and a half million dollars.
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Taiwan-Alaska Trade & Investment Cooperation Council
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Co-Chair Mike Barry, Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority Board
Co-Chair Frank Roppel, Alaska Housing Finance Corporation
Alan Austerman, Office of the Governor
Michael Beal, Seldovia Native Association
Steve Borell, Alaska Miners’ Association
Larry DeVilbiss, Wolverine Farm
Mark Eliason, US Travel
Rich Heig, Greens Creek
Tom Irwin, State of Alaska, Commissioner of Department of Natural Resources
Margy Johnson, Office of the Governor
Trevor McCabe,
Ron Miller, Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority
Bill Noll, Office of the Governor
Ron Peck, Alaska Travel Industry Association
Steve Seley, Pacific Log & Lumber
John Sturgeon, Trans-Pac Building Materials
Bob Thorstenson, United Fishermen of Alaska
James Weeks, UltraStar Exploration
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The first annual meeting of the Taiwan-Alaska Trade & Investment Cooperation Council convened in December 2004 in Taipei.
Director General Robert C.M. Chen of the Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Seattle meets with Governor Murkowski in Fairbanks.
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The establishment of the Taiwan-Alaska Trade & Investment Cooperation Council was a highpoint in Alaska/Taiwan relations in 2004. The new council seeks to expand trade with Taiwan, based in part
on the natural fit between resource and energy-rich Alaska and the energy needs of Taiwan. The Council has representatives from Taiwan and Alaska in the industries of energy, mining, forestry,
agriculture, fisheries, and tourism. Taiwan and Alaska officials agreed to work together to explore potential for export of Alaska’s substantial deposits of coal.
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